Skill Discussions

I checked google and nothing has been discussed since Odessy changes to exploration. So my question is is it worth training these skills to V, are the benefits from 4 to 5 worth the extra 15 days?

Tia
Aral

Didn't use to be, now there is. Like the guy above me said, archeology for the coherence or w/e the f it is.

Or sleeper caches. I'd say both are worthwhile there but -- of course -- it depends on the rest of your skillset.

Yes I am an avid explorer and have been for years however I have come to a point after 6 years of training I can now start on skills that once were not as much of a priority as others. I have very decent scanning skills and if training up the skills for the mods I use inside the sites up more albeit spending 15 days each is worth it than now would be the time for me to plug them in my queue. I was curios as to others who have trained these skills up if it were indeed worth it and what were some of the noticeable benefits for doing so.

If you explore outside of high-sec, or plan to run ghost and sleeper sites -- yes! If you don't care about sleeper sites you could get away with just Archaeology V.

Ironically, a year and a half or so ago Relic sites were absolute trash and Data sites had all the money. As a result I now have both at lvl V.

And yes, it's totally worth it for the t2 analyzers. They are probably not required in secure space, but if you're doing relic and/or data sites in secure space you're doing something wrong.

In W-Space and nul-space t2 it's totally worth it.

Even in highsec (and before the introduction of sleeper caches) there are systems like Aphi and Deltole with static sites that were a lot easier to do with a T2 Data/Relic analyzer.
However, earning good ISK/hr from these sites is pure lottery.